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| Bryozoan grows on a red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25395 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25393 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Golden Damselfish and Red Gorgonian Sea Fan, Fiji. Image ID: 31337 Species: Gorgonian, Golden Damselfish, Gorgonacea, Amblyglyphidodon aureus Location: Makogai Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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| Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25394 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 35825 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 35828 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| Colorful Dendronephthya soft corals and red gorgonian and schooling Anthias fish on coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 31351 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Gorgonian, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias, Gorgonacea Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Red Gorgonian and Yellow Crinoid on Coral Reef, Fiji. Image ID: 31395 Species: Crinoid Feather Star, Gorgonian, Black Sun Coral, Crinoidea, Gorgonacea, Tubastrea micrantha Location: Wakaya Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji | Yellow crinoid, green fan coral and red gorgonian on colorful and pristine coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 31396 Species: Crinoid Feather Star, Gorgonian, Black Sun Coral, Crinoidea, Gorgonacea, Tubastrea micrantha Location: Wakaya Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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| Garibaldi and red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 30870 Species: Garibaldi, Red gorgonian, Hypsypops rubicundus, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian polyps. The red gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Image ID: 03480 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 23420 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 23425 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 23431 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25406 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25407 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian. Image ID: 00616 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Diver and red gorgonian. Image ID: 01485 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| California Golden gorgonian, red gorgonian, sheephead. Image ID: 02533 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef below kelp forest. Image ID: 03827 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonians. Image ID: 04747 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian, polyp detail. Image ID: 07005 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian. Image ID: 05333 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25404 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonians and California golden gorgonians on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 30914 Species: Blacksmith, California golden gorgonian, Red gorgonian, Chromis punctipinnis, Muricea californica, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Yellow crinoid, green fan coral and red gorgonian on colorful and pristine coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 31639 Species: Crinoid Feather Star, Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Gorgonian, Dendronephthya, Crinoidea, Gorgonacea Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Colorful Dendronephthya soft corals and red gorgonian and schooling Anthias fish on coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 31646 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Gorgonian, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias, Gorgonacea Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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| Red Gorgonian and Yellow Crinoid on Coral Reef, Fiji. Image ID: 31741 Species: Crinoid Feather Star, Gorgonian, Sea Fan, Crinoidea, Gorgonacea, Plexauridae Location: Wakaya Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji | Golden Damselfish and Red Gorgonian Sea Fan, Fiji. Image ID: 31778 Species: Gorgonian, Golden Damselfish, Sea Fan, Gorgonacea, Amblyglyphidodon aureus, Plexauridae Location: Makogai Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji | Garibaldi and gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Catalina Island, California, USA. Image ID: 34623 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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